You’re arrogant. Also obnoxious. And completely failing at Zen. If this were a koan the teacher would be chasing you out of the temple with a stick, thwacking you as you run. What on earth do you expect to gain by insulting people’s intelligence and berating them for not getting koans (and ignoring the evidence that they got, shrugged, and said “so?”). When has sneering ever been a technique of instruction? You should demote yourself to bottom-most neophyte and restart from sitting.
You’re arrogant. Also obnoxious. And completely failing at Zen. If this were a koan the teacher would be chasing you out of the temple with a stick, thwacking you as you run. What on earth do you expect to gain by insulting people’s intelligence and berating them for not getting koans (and ignoring the evidence that they got, shrugged, and said “so?”). When has sneering ever been a technique of instruction? You should demote yourself to bottom-most neophyte and restart from sitting.
Convey the truths of enlightenment? *thwack*
Considering how irritating “Annoyance” is, their nickname is apt-ironic :-(
If this is not Caledonian, then there are two Caledonians.
A whole country of them, north of England.
Did you honestly think that wasn’t intentional?
I like to think Socrates’ “gadfly” worked into the nickname.
They do it to give themselves permission.